Vuurwerkvrije VrijMiBo
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Prettig weekend. En be nice.
VrijMiBo met paarse tong
I bring an unaccustomed wine
To lips long parching
Next to mine,
And summon them to drink;
Crackling with fever, they Essay,
I turn my brimming eyes away,
And come next hour to look.
The hands still hug the tardy glass—
The lips I would have cooled, alas—
Are so superfluous Cold—
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould—
Some other thirsty there may be
To whom this would have pointed me
Had it remained to speak—
And so I always bear the cup
If, haply, mine may be the drop
Some pilgrim thirst to slake—
If, haply, any say to me
"Unto the little, unto me,"
When I at last awake.
Prettig weekend. En be nice.
Is het nou de VrijMiBo of niet
Ik houd van feestgedruisch, - van 't harde licht,
dat uit reflectors neerschiet in de zaal, -
van carnavalspret, en van dolle taal, -
van schaterlach op een vermoeid gezicht, -
van hen, die stil verbloeden aan de kwaal
huns harten, maar nog, wild omhoog gericht,
een walspas dansen, - van een lichaam, dicht
bedekt met wonden, die men achter praal
van 't feestkleed niet vermoedt. - Ik houd van schmink
op een verteerd gelaat, - van oogen, groot
van tranen, en van belladonna zwart, -
van koperen muziekdeun, en geklink
van glazen, dat het stille schreien doodt, -
van vreugde als het masker van de smart.
Prettig weekend. En be nice.
Vraag het de VrijMiBo
You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease,
Within this region I subsist,
Whose spirits falter in the mist,
And languish for the purple seas.
It is the land that freemen till,
That sober-suited Freedom chose,
The land, where girt with friends or foes
A man may speak the thing he will;
A land of settled government,
A land of just and old renown,
Where Freedom slowly broadens down
From precedent to precedent:
Where faction seldom gathers head,
But by degrees to fullness wrought,
The strength of some diffusive thought
Hath time and space to work and spread.
Should banded unions persecute
Opinion, and induce a time
When single thought is civil crime,
And individual freedom mute;
Tho' Power should make from land to land
The name of Britain trebly great—
Tho' every channel of the State
Should fill and choke with golden sand—
Yet waft me from the harbour-mouth,
Wild wind! I seek a warmer sky,
And I will see before I die
The palms and temples of the South.
Prettig weekend. En be nice.
VrijMiBo voor op kantoor
Ik wist al wat voor brief het was
voordat ik maar een woordje las
van wat er stond:
een jongenshandschrift is altijd
zo hoekig als de puberteit,
meisjes zijn rond.
Handschrift met meer betekenis
dan alles wat de inhoud is
van deze brief:
de letters, krullerig en fijn,
ze zeggen: 'k Wil je meisje zijn,
ik heb je lief.'
Ik heb vandaag een brief gehad
die maakt dat ik in deze stad
de koning ben.
In mijn paleis, voor 't hoogste raam,
lees ik steeds weer die ronde naam:
Eva Cohen.
Prettig weekend. En be nice.
Vredelievende VN VrijMiBo
I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman -
I have detested you long enough.
I come to you as a grown child
Who has had a pig-headed father;
I am old enough now to make friends.
It was you that broke the new wood,
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root -
Let there be commerce between us.
Prettig weekend. En be nice.
De naam is VrijMiBo
Mijn moeder is mijn naam vergeten,
mijn kind weet nog niet hoe ik heet.
Hoe moet ik mij geborgen weten?
Noem mij, bevestig mijn bestaan,
laat mijn naam zijn als een keten.
Noem mij, noem mij, spreek mij aan,
o, noem mij bij mijn diepste naam.
Voor wie ik liefheb, wil ik heten.
Prettig weekend. En be nice.
VrijMiBo voor de Onbekenden
I travelled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor, England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee.
'Tis past, that melancholy dream!
Nor will I quit thy shore
A second time; for still I seem
To love thee more and more.
Among thy mountains did I feel
The joy of my desire;
And she I cherished turned her wheel
Beside an English fire.
Thy mornings showed, thy nights concealed,
The bowers where Lucy played;
And thine too is the last green field
That Lucy's eyes surveyed.
Prettig weekend. En be nice.
VrijMiBo voor de bedelaars
Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me:
'Why do you let me lie here wastefully?
I am all you never had of goods and sex.
You could get them still by writing a few cheques.'
So I look at others, what they do with theirs:
They certainly don't keep it upstairs.
By now they've a second house and car and wife:
Clearly money has something to do with life
—In fact, they've a lot in common, if you enquire:
You can't put off being young until you retire,
And however you bank your screw, the money you save
Won't in the end buy you more than a shave.
I listen to money singing. It's like looking down
From long french windows at a provincial town,
The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad
In the evening sun. It is intensely sad.
Prettig weekend. En be nice.